Quotation via Dialogical Interaction

Jonathan Ginzburg (1, 2) , Robin Cooper (3)

1 CLILLAC-ARP (EA_3967) - Centre de Linguistique Inter-langues, de Lexicologie, de Linguistique Anglaise et de Corpus
2 LabEx EFL - LabEx Empirical Foundations of Linguistics
3 GU - Göteborgs Universitet = University of Gothenburg

Quotation has been much studied in philosophy. Given that quotation allows one to diagonalize out of any grammar, there have been comparatively few attempts within the linguistic literature to develop an account within a formal linguistic theory. Nonetheless, given the ubiquity of quotation in natural language, linguists need to explicate the formal mechanisms it employs. The central claim of this paper is that once one assumes a dialogical perspective on language such as provided by the KoS 1 framework, formalized in a rich type theory like Type Theory with Records (TTR), much of the mystery evaporates. In particular, one can utilize as denotations for quotative constructions entities that are independently motivated for dialogue processing—utterance types and locutionary propositions, austinian propositions about speech events.

Domaines: Sciences cognitives

Jonathan Ginzburg, Robin Cooper. Quotation via Dialogical Interaction. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2014, pp.24. ⟨10.1007/s10849-014-9200-5⟩. ⟨hal-01126614⟩